Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 14
- ISBN-10
- 8577775704
- ISBN-13
- 9788577775705
- Series
- Big Book of Best Short Stories
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 610
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-11-13
- Publisher
- Tacet Books
- Authors
- R. Austin Freeman, William Pett Ridge, Gilbert Parker
Description
This book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: Anthony Hope: - The Adventure of Lady Ursula. - Aspirations—Explanations. - A Cut and a Kiss. - Promising. - Imagination. - Uncle John and the Rubies. - Lucifera.William Pett Ridge: - Ah Lun's Gift. - The Alteration in Mr. Kershaw. - A Brief Comic Opera. - A Cautious Youth. - A Conflict of Interests. - A Determined Young Person. - Easy Come.Sir Gilbert Parker: - The Little Bell of Honour. - The Baron of Beaugard. - The Singing of the Bees. - The Marriage of the Miller. - Mathurin. - Uncle Jim. - Parpon the Dwarf.Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford: - The Mad Lady. - A Homely Sacrifice. - Her Eyes Are Doves. - An Angel in the House. - Yesterday. - The Conquering Will. - The Deacon's Whistle.Elizabeth Garver Jordan: - Bart Harrington, Genius. - The Community's Sunbeam. - Mrs. Mccafferty Explains. - Motion Study at St. Katharine's. - Philip's "Furnis Man". - The Surrender of Professor Seymour. - Young Love. R. Austin Freeman: - The Case of Oscar Brodski. - A Case of Premeditation. - The Echo of a Mutiny. - The Anthropologist at Large. - The Aluminum Dagger. - By the Black Deep. - A Message From The Deep Sea.Alice Duer Miller: - The Candid Friend. - A Clash of Sentimentalists. - Emulation. - Home Influence. - Middle Age. - The Relapse. - The Respecters of Law.Leonard Merrick: - Aribaud's Two Wives. - The Attack in the Rue de la Presse. - The Doll in the Pink Silk Dress. - The Elegant de Fronsac. - Fluffums. - A Millionaire's Romance. - The Propriety of Pauline.Ethel Watts Mumford: - The Arabian Days of Jimmy Jennette. - The Bells of Cullam . - The Cordon Bleu of the Sierra. - The Eyes of the Heart. - The Fear Motif. - Her Groove. - How Beelzebub Came to the Convent.Anne O'Hagan Shinn: - Bread Eaten in Secret. - The Courtship of the Boss. - Emeline Hardacre's Revenge. - Fate and the Pocketbook. - Margaret McDonough's Restaurant. - The Romance at Hollywood College - Phœbe in Politics
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